Thanks for your input, everyone. I found that the approached described in this link worked best:
http://ostermiller.org/utils/Base64.html The basic idea is to encode the "user:pass" string in Base 64 and simply add that to the Http header. --- Andreas Probst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this is a browser-intern thing. A person > looking over > your shoulder could read it. But IE will translate > this into a > just normal request. There's no difference to a > request where IE > had asked for credentials. From within your servlet > you will not > even be able to realize it. > > On 6 Dec 2002 at 19:04, Andreas Probst wrote: > > > Hi Mike, > > > > try http://name:pass@www..... > > > > How do you know the password? > > > > Andreas > > > > On 6 Dec 2002 at 8:33, J Doe wrote: > > > > > > > > Background: Consider two webapps: foo and bar. > When a > > > user of foo performs a certain action, foo > shares > > > files with bar by calling actions on each other > via > > > HTTP. > > > > > > We are being asked to put a memory realm on foo > and > > > bar so that users must login. The problem is > that now > > > the above system-level communication between foo > and > > > bar will break. > > > > > > Question: if one knows the username and password > for a > > > webapp, can it be placed on the URL? > > > > > > E.g. > > > > http://mydomain.com:8080/foo?username=x&password=y > > > > > > I've tried this but no luck. > > > > > > More generally, is there a way to do it with the > > > java.net URL class? > > > > > > Any ideas? I realize that perhaps foo and bar > could > > > communicate in a different way (RMI, JMS) but > that is > > > not really an option for us. > > > > > > thanks, > > > Mike > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up > now. > > > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > > > additional commands, e-mail: > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For > > additional commands, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
